Each 55 minute episode covers the events of a decade. 1. The Birth of the New Irish State; 2. Depression and the Rise of Fianna Fáil to Power; 3. The Forties - Decade of Neutrality and Censorship; 4. The Fifties - The Make or Break Decade; 5. The Modernisation of Ireland; 6. The Seventies - A Decade of Terror, Tension and Transformation; 7. Haughey and FitzGerald - Great Adversaries of the Eighties.